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Local government units around the country will do their best to uphold their newly-assigned duty to construct classrooms to address shortage. This was what Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) president and Quirino Governor Dax Cua said after Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. ordered that funds be given directly to LGUs for classroom construction […]
Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano called on the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to work closely with the Department of Education (DepEd) in addressing classroom shortages across the country, saying the government’s school building program must promote equity among students regardless of region. During the Senate budget briefing for the DPWH’s proposed […]
Senator Kiko Pangilinan has suggested the inclusion of tax deductions and private sector partnerships in the provisions of the Classroom Building Acceleration Program Act. A former chairman of the education panel during his first term in the Senate, Pangilinan shared some of the interventions undertaken by his then-committee during the joint hearing of the basic […]
Instead of “playing catch up with backlogs” in school buildings, government should “build forward,” by constructing in advance classrooms for future enrollees, Sen. Sonny Angara said. “I think we should now implement a zero-backlog program. Let’s choose a year of when it will be achieved. And once that’s done, let’s stock up on new classrooms […]